Juliet Ashton Pořadí knih

This is a novel about community, love, laughter and healing. Think Cold Feet meets David Nicholls, with a dash of the joy of Jill Mansell added for good measure. It doesn't look like much from the outside, but Cherry Blossom Mews is a miraculous place. It's somewhere that finds you, rather than the other way around. Sadie McQueen has leased a double fronted space in this small cul de sac in a culturally diverse corner of central London. The cobbles muffle the noise of double-deckers roaring past the arched gates. Turn right and you are in a futuristic maze of corporate glass monoliths. Turn left and you see a wide street with many different houses. Towering above the mews are the degenerating tower blocks of an infamous estate. The old folks home and the nearby school are both in need of TLC; the private members' club that set up shop in a listed Georgian building has been discreetly refurbished at huge expense. Into this confusion comes Sadie. She fell in love with the street the moment she first twisted her ankle on its cobbles. Her double-fronted unit is now a spa. She has sunk all her money into the lease and refurbishment. She's sunk all her hope into the carefully designed treatment rooms, the calm white reception space, the bijou flat carved out of the floor above. Sadie has a mission to connect. To heal herself from tragedy. Sadie has wrapped the mews around her like a warm blanket, after unimaginable loss and unimaginable guilt. Her hard-won peace is threatened, not only by the prospect of the mews going under but by a man aptly named Hero who wakes up her comatose heart. Sadie has a lot to give, and a lot to learn, not least that some ghosts aren't ghosts at all. Praise for Juliet Ashton's novels: `A warming testament to the elasticity and enduring love of true family bonds. I adored this book' Penny Parkes 'Fresh, funny and utterly fabulous' Heat `A joy from start to finish. The relationships within the family ring so true. And the twists kept me guessing. A beautiful book' Laura Kemp

The first rule of Sunday Lunch Club is … don't make any afternoon plans. Every few Sundays, Anna and her extended family and friends get together for lunch. They talk, they laugh, they bicker, they eat too much. Sometimes the important stuff is left unsaid, other times it's said in the wrong way. Sitting between her ex-husband and her new lover, Anna is coming to terms with an unexpected pregnancy at the age of forty. Also at the table are her ageing grandmother, her promiscuous sister, her flamboyantly gay brother and a memory too terrible to contemplate. Until, that is, a letter arrives from the person Anna scarred all those years ago. Can Anna reconcile her painful past with her uncertain future? Juliet Ashton weaves a story of love, friendship and community that will move you to laughter and to tears. Think Cold Feet meets David Nicholls, with a dash of the joy of Jill Mansell added for good measure.

Příběh plný lásky, přátelství a humoru nás zavede do domu č. 24, kde žije pestrá sbírka obyvatel s vzájemně propletenými vztahy. Dětská psycholožka Sarah se trápí, protože její exmanžel se od ní odstěhoval a bydlí teď s novou partnerkou jen o patro níž! Sarah si také dělá starosti o malou Unu a její věčně unavenou úzkostlivou matku. A jaké tajemství skrývá věčně nabručená Mavis z přízemí? Situace se pro Sarah ještě víc zamotá, když se v domě objeví noví nájemníci Jane a Tom. Mezi Sarah a Tomem přeskočí jiskra, ale nevěra přece nepřipadá v úvahu! Nebo je nakonec všechno úplně jinak?

Číst tuto knihu je jako probírat se rodinným albem a nahlížet do života jiných lidí. Kate a Becca jsou sestřenice a taky nejlepší kamarádky, i když jsou každá úplně jiná. Jako pod drobnohledem sledujeme jejich každodenní život, všechny jeho milníky od dětských oslav, přes osmnácté narozeniny až po dvojitou svatbu. Pak by všichni mohli žít šťastně až do smrti, jak se říkává, jenže příběh teprve začíná! Román Juliet Ashton je tím pravým pro všechny, kdo věří v osud a lásku. Ta však může mít různé podoby: od té velké a spalující až po tichou a vytrvalou, která často přijde až tehdy, kdy ji už vůbec nečekáme. Ale co se stane, když člověk, jehož milujete, nemůže být váš? Život nikdy není takový, jak si člověk plánuje. Přináší ztráty v podobě zklamání a podrazů i od těch nejbližších, ale i nečekané nálezy ve chvílích dokonalého štěstí. O tom všem vypráví kniha plná překvapivých zápletek, dokonalých postřehů, skvěle vykreslených charakterů, ale i britského humoru.

The Valentine's card was meant to be Orla's fairy tale ending, but really, it was only the beginning . . .Orla adores her actor boyfriend, Sim, who's away filming a sumptuous costume drama. Although the long-distance relationship means that she can eat toast for dinner and watch as much reality TV as she likes, she misses him like crazy.But Valentine's Day changes everything . . . The same morning Orla learns that Sim has died, she receives a card from him. As Orla travels from Ireland to London, to live and breathe Sim's final moments, can she bring herself to open the Valentine's card and read his final message?

From nineteenth-century broad arrows and black and white stripes to twenty first-century orange jumpsuits, prison clothing has both mirrored and bolstered the power of penal institutions over prisoners' lives. This book offers an investigation of prison dress, which demystifies the experience of what it is like to be an imprisoned criminal.